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Lisaann vs Lisette

American parents have registered 9,581 Lisettes since 1880, against 582 Lisaanns. Lisette is still ahead, with 29 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Lisaann against Lisette, 1880 to 2025 0 100 200 300 400 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Lisaann Lisette

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Lisette has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1882 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1965, when Lisaann had 47 and Lisette had 79.

Side by side

  Lisaann Lisette
Total US births 5829,581
Most in one year 47395
Babies in 2025 under 529
Estimated living today 5309,100
Median age today 5635
Peak year 19651999
Best rank 1,635th girls615th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked4,661st
First recorded 19581882
Girls / boys 582 / 09,581 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Lisaanns alive today are over 56; half the Lisettes are over 35. That is 21 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Lisaann and Lisette.